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UNITED. STATES PATENT FFICE.

DANIEL XV. BAKER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,768, dated October23, 1888.

Application filed May 12, 1888. Serial No. 273,697. (No model.)-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL W. BAKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vests, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, making part of this specifica tion, inwhich Figure 1 is an elevation of a vest-spring constructed inaccordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a view representing one of mysprings applied to the inner side of the front of a vest. Fig. 3 is aview of the outside of the front of a vest and the upper portion of apair of trousers, showing in dotted lines the spring attached to theinner side of the vest, and illustrating the manner in which it isconnected, when in use, with the upper portion of the trousers.

My invention has for its object to prevent the lower portion of thefront of a vest from rising up and getting out of shape, as nowfrequently occurs; and to this end my invention consists in the improvedvest which I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

In the said drawings, A representsa portion of the front of a vest, tothe lower part of the inner side of which is secured a spring, B,composed of a single piece of wire bent into the form shown, and havingtwo diverging arms, a b, a coil, 0, being preferably formed at thejunction of these arms to render the spring more elastic. The lower arm,a, of the spring extends along near the lower edge of the vest-front, asseen in Figs. 2 and 3, and is provided at its outer end with a loop oreye, (I, which is securely sewed or otherwise fastened to thevest-lining, as seen in Fig. 2. The end of the arm a may, however, beprovided with any other suitable means for attaching it to the innerside of the vest, and this arm a may be covered with a piece of tape ornarrow strip of cloth, 0, as seen in Fig. 2, or left ex posed, aspreferred. The springB is further secured to the vest and kept in placeby a piece of tape, f, sewed over the coil 0.

The

upper arm, I), of the spring is not attached to the vest-lining and isfree to be bent downwardly toward the fixed arm a, and when so bent downits outer end is caught onto or connected with the upper portion of thetrousers D, as seen in Fig. 3, when the tendency of the two arms a b tospring apart will cause the lower arm, a, to exert a pressure away fromthe upper arm, Z), and force down the lower portion of the vest-front,to which, as before stated, the said arm a is attached, whereby thevestis held down with aspring-pressure which will readily yield to themovements of the body, and yet keep the vest smooth andin its properposition and prevent it from rising up and getting out of shape,desiderata hitherto unattained.

The outer end of the free arm I) of the spring B is bent to form a hook,g, which, when the arm I) is bent down, after putting on the vest, isadapted to catch under the neck of one of the buttons or other fasteningof the front opening or fly of the trousers; but the outer end of thearm b may be otherwise suitably shaped or provided with any suitablemeans to enable it to engage or be connected with the front portion ofthe trousers, and be easily disconnected therefrom when the vest is tobe taken off.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, a vest having theinner side of itsfront portion provided with a spring formed of a single piece of wire.one endof which is secured to the vest, while the opposite end is freeand provided with a bent or hook-shaped end, whereby it may engage withthe neck of a button or other fastening on the upper portion of thetrousers to hold the vest down, substantially as herein described.

\Vitness my hand this 9th day of May, A. D. 1888.

DANIEL \V. BAKER.

In presence of P. E. TESCHEMAOHER, HARRY W. AIKEN.

